Haggai 1:9

You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.

Haggai 1:4

"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

Joshua 7:10-15

The LORD said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face?

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death."

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

2 Kings 19:7

Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'"

Job 10:2

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.

Psalm 77:5-10

I consider the days of old, the years long ago.

Isaiah 17:10-11

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,

Haggai 2:16-17

how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

Malachi 3:8-11

Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?'In your tithes and contributions.

Matthew 10:37-38

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

1 Corinthians 11:30-32

That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

Bible References

Ye looked

Haggai 1:6
You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
Haggai 2:16
how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
Isaiah 17:10
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
Malachi 3:8
Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?'In your tithes and contributions.

Blow upon it

2 Samuel 22:16
Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
2 Kings 19:7
Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'"
Isaiah 40:7
The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

Why

Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
Psalm 77:5
I consider the days of old, the years long ago.

General references

Leviticus 19:25
But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the LORD your God.
Proverbs 3:9
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
Malachi 3:9
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.

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